15-20 percent of all couples have problems fulfilling their desire to have children. A woman’s highest natural fertility (fertility) is between the ages of 15 and 25, after which it steadily declines.
With the onset of menopause, natural fertility ends. The natural fertility of men begins to decline slowly from the age of 40 – however, in individual cases it can remain until old age.
However, we only speak of sterility when regular sexual intercourse twice a week does not result in pregnancy within one to two years.
On the following pages, you will learn which risk factors increase the risk of infertility, what the underlying causes of infertility may be, how they are diagnosed, and how a holistic reproductive physician can help you.
